9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Accessys at smart.net wrote:
> have done both.....??
> 
> no effect.  in fact I have removed all peripherals and tried to boot
> the old SUSE 10 and the computer won't boot, says there is no boot
> media.  this is an upgrade with a new motherboard, CPU, and Graphics
> card and new Harddrive.

	OK! I give up! Now you say oh, by the way it IS a new mother board with
BIOS and CPU and a new Hard drive.


	When you decide to tell us ALL about the changes we *might* try and
help you later.


73 Karl



> 
> was running an hour before shutting down to make the upgrade....would
> boot fine in SUSE on old system,  only problem was that it was "olde"
> and couldn't run some of the newer software.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Chris Mohler wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Accessys at smart.net<accessys at smart.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
>>> Â  Â  Â  Yes! If the BIOS does not show that drive it means you will never find
>>> it! The first step is to find out what is wrong. Make sure the big flat
>>> cable is connected at the hard drive and the mother board. Make sure the
>>> hard drive is running. Now check BIOS and see if the hard drive is there.
>> that's the part that has me confused,. Â I have two drives on that
>> cable, the hard drive AND a CD drive which is the drive I used to load
>> Ubuntu from.... if finds the CD fine.
>>
>> the hard drive does run I hear it spin up if I listen hard enough.
>> have changed the cables and have switched the positions of the plugs
>> on the drives....
>>
>> can't understand why the BIOS doesn't see it though.
> 
> Check jumper settings on the IDE hard drive.  Or disconnect the CD
> drive and put the IDE hard drive on that connector (on the ribbon).
> 
> HTH,
> Chris
> 


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